Durban: A milestone in the new antisemitism
The Durban Conference in South Africa in September 2001 was not just an event; it was a turning point. It was the modern-day Wannsee that planned the contemporary destruction of the Jewish people.I was there for the Italian newspaper, La Stampa. The stench of something rotten was already emanating from the preparations for the great gathering “against racism” convened by the United Nations, with the participation of an enormous number of NGOs—some 3,000—all of them with knives between their teeth, determined to demonstrate that, under the banner of human rights, the real enemy was Israel.It was there, even more than with the U.N.'s “Zionism is racism” resolution of 1975, that Stalin’s path was resumed. In 1952-53, he had initiated and theorized a new great hunt against the Jews, inventing the blood libel of the “Jewish doctors’ plot” and staging the Slánský trial. The systematic murder and deportation of Jews were…
The 2001 UN Durban Conference in South Africa marked a pivotal moment in the "new antisemitism," transforming Israel into a symbol of racism, colonialism, and genocide. The author, reporting for La Stampa, witnessed the event where approximately 3,000 NGOs, alongside UN bodies, framed Israel as the primary enemy under the guise of human rights, echoing historical antisemitic tropes. The conference, which occurred during the Second Intifada, saw figures like Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat converge, with Castro alleging "the terrible genocide being perpetrated today against our Palestinian brothers" by Israel. The event also preemptively legitimized terrorism as a struggle by "freedom fighters." Both the United States and Israel eventually walked out of the conference due to its antisemitic nature. The author contends that Durban laid the groundwork for the international response to the October 7, 2023 attacks, exemplified by UN Secretary-General António Guterres's statement that the attacks "did not happen in a vacuum," positioning the UN as a "prophet" of this ongoing antisemitic catastrophe.
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